Controlled frustration of total internal reflection by electrophoresis of pigment particles

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1601-1609

  Mossman, Michele A ^a   Whitehead, Lorne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIGMENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELASTOMERIC GEL SURFACES; REFLECTANCE MODULATION TECHNIQUE; STEP FUNCTIONS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR);

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 15944363436     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001601     Document Type: Article

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